Latest teaser surfaced on web that talks about new crop feature in the upcoming Pentax Fullframe DSLR camera, that will allow users to select different image recording sizes based on type of lenses used over the camera, the Camera will act as a fullframe camera when a fullframe lens is used and a APS-C camera when a APS-C lens is used, that’s a prefect feature and APS-C camera users will easily switch there format without worrying about the lens issue…

Take a look at press text

The new PENTAX 35mm full-frame digital SLR camera features a Crop mode, which allows you to select the image size to be recorded, with a choice of three settings: AUTO, FF and APS-C. The AUTO setting automatically selects the appropriate image size for the lens mounted on the camera. It selects either a 35mm full-frame image size for D FA- and FA-series lenses, or an APS-C image size for DA- and DA L-series lenses. The FF setting captures all images in a 35mm full-frame image size, regardless of the lens mounted on the camera.* The APS-C setting captures all images in an APS-C image size, regardless of the lens**, while displaying a cropping frame in the camera’s viewfinder.

* In the FF setting, an image outside the APS-C-format picture frame may not be reproduced in sufficient quality with certain lenses and/or in certain situations.
** When an image is cropped to an APS-C image size, the number of recorded pixels is lower, as the pixels in the cropped areas are eliminated.

Finally we came to know the actual reason behind the delay in the announcement of the Pentax fullframe camera. The FF camera has been delayed due to the Pentax K-II callback. According to the Pentax representatives the production line can’t handle the callback and production of Pentax Fullframe camera at the same time.

Just two months after the announcement many of the Pentax K-3 users started complaining about the K-3 faulty switch of button, according to the users the power off button fails to switch off the camera and due to that camera never shut-down and battery drains up too quickly. Rioch / Pentax offered free inspection and repair of affected cameras. To check the fault you must see the back of your camera to check the serial number and if you camera with a serial number of 6206660 (or above it) than it is not affected by the problem. BTW, Ricoh Imaging USA customer service department at 1-800-234-0276

The Pentax upcoming DSLR image is compared with Pentax APS-C sensor based K-3 DSLR camera, the K-3 was considered to be Pentax APS-C flagship machine before the K-3 II.

Take a look at the size comparison created by Xite foum member

From the image comparison we can clearly see that the upcoming DSLR is slightly big compared to the current Pentax K-3 DSLR. Camera may arrive with a Sony high resolution 36/42 MP sensor and advance cores specification.

The long awaited Pentax Full Frame DSLR again ignores its previous date of announcement which was November, 2015. Now according to Ricoh Official website, there is expectation that it will be announced in the upcoming Spring, 2016. The rumored cost of device will be EURO 2,000.

Such type of long-delay is definitely sufficient to raise our high expectation from Pentax and also it waves the positive thought for it which is based on previous rumors related to its specifications. We expect it will confirm its early rumor with the inclusion of the same 42MP sensor, sport in Sony A7R II. However, some previous rumors also claimed that the Pentax may use the 36.4MP sensor from the A7R.

If such rumor will come in reality than it will definitely a huge bonus for Pentax and also a great surprise package for the long-awaited users .

It will definitely a great challenge for the current rivals and also tough time for them to challenge Pentax Full Frame DSLR with 42MP sensor. Since all our predictions are based on rumors so we have to wait for few months for its reality and hope Pentax will come with latest Full Frame DSLR camera with 42MP sensor.

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